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technology management & innovation

technology management & innovation. introduction to project management (ii) project planning methods & tools. Project Culture. TIME. project. MONEY. RESOURCES. TASK LIST. DELIVERABLES. OBJECTIVE. Project Planning. evaluate a new technology. written report and presentation.

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technology management & innovation

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  1. technology management & innovation introduction to project management (ii) project planning methods & tools tm&i 2010

  2. Project Culture TIME project MONEY RESOURCES tm&i 2010

  3. TASK LIST DELIVERABLES OBJECTIVE Project Planning evaluate a new technology written report and presentation plan your projects from “the top down” review IP analyse performance determine manufacturing compare with competition (SWOT) make recommendation prepare the report & presentation tm&i 2010

  4. compile task list • specify chronology (order in which tasks occur) • assign task durations • the sum of all sequential task durations gives an estimate of the project duration (“end date”) tm&i 2010

  5. Tasks can be arranged in sequential steps (boxes), rather like a computer programme • This technique is known as a PERT chart • Each box is a task, and has a start date, finish date & duration tm&i 2010

  6. main tasks sub tasks tm&i 2010

  7. Project Planning programme evaluation and review technique (PERT) • PERT analysis • good for logical flow and Critical Path Analysis (CPA) • but hard to visualise actual task durations • The Gantt chart provides a simple graphical representation of task duration, plotted as a function of time tm&i 2010

  8. The Project Gantt Chart tm&i 2010

  9. Gantt Chart • easy to “grasp” at a glance • good for explaining project plans to others • impact of human resource changes clearly visible on timescale and “end date” • good for monitoring project progress (more on this in next lecture) tm&i 2010

  10. TASK LIST DELIVERABLES OBJECTIVE PERT & CPA TIMING Gantt RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESOURCE tm&i 2010

  11. summary • top down approach to project plans is “common sense” • objective, deliverables, tasks, sub-tasks • network diagram (PERT) illustrates task precedence (order) and helps to identify the critical path • Gantt chart is good for explaining the project to others and clearly shows key project dates (e.g. milestones), and the effect resourcing has on these dates tm&i 2010

  12. homework task 6 • design a project plan for your Applied Chemistry Master’s thesis • I recommend you use MS-Project Professional 2007 • prepare a Gantt chart of your project to clearly show tasks, duration and chronology (precedence), project start date, and end date (viva/graduation!) • submission date 14/12/11 • reading assigments Week 4, 5,6, i 7 • Download a free trial version of MS-Project here, or see Petar Kassel about using the lab PC in ZOAK • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e6c9977-69af-4cbc-8f39-d0111088ed48 tm&i 2010

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